The Planetary Humanism of European Womens Science Fiction: An Experience of the [Paperback]

Introduction and Roadmap 

Chapter 1: Towards New Forms of Humanism 

Chapter 2: Contextualising the History of Science Fiction 

Chapter 3: Re-historicising the Future: Re-contextualising Systems of Race and Gender in Womens Sciece Fiction 

Chapter 4: Embodying New Forms of Humanism: The Fate of Race and Gender in Queer Assemblages 

Chapter 5: Pregnancy, by Mistake: Transgressing Race and Gender Through Queered Extraterrestrial Fertility 

Chapter 6: Non-Reproductive Planetary Communities: Race, Gender, Kinship, and Forgetting to Conform 

Chapter 7: At the Borders of the Planetary 

Chapter 8: Conclusion: New Forms of Humanism 

Summaries of Primary Science Fiction Texts

The Planetary Humanism of European Womens Science Fiction argues that utopian science fiction written by European women has, since the seventeenth century, played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination.

This book focuses on six works of science fiction from the UK, France, Spain, and Italy: Jennifer Marie Brissetts Elysium; Nicoletta Valloranis Sulla Sabbia di Sur and Il Cuore Finto di DR; Aliette de Bodards Xuya Universe series; Elia Barcelos Consecuencias Naturales; and Historias del Crazy Bar, a collection of stories by Lola Robles and Maria Concepcion Regueiro. It sets these in conversation with key gender and critical race scholars: Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, and Jack Halberstam. It asserts that a key concern for feminism, anti- racism, and science flã5